The Washington critic., 1887-03-17
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Wilmington NJ. T.. Conference begins its
SESSIONS at Crisileld to-day
The oyster pungy slIlie Francis was
licked up yesterday on Annapolis in Il dis
abled condition.
The r,m ins OF the distinguished civil
er rlinCeT, Captain James u. Ea l., arrived
a, II. Louis yesterday.
Two Corean students visited the United
States Naval Academy yesterday In com
pany with Rear Admiral Anmen.
The cooperative Printing aud Publishing
Company, 81 Beach street, Boston, has
failed. Liabilities, S25 Gas: nominal assets
about SlS,OO0.
Robert Furnace and Jesse Jcuuiugs, two
farmers, while crossing the railroad track
about a mile from Nokomis, ILL.,, lu wagon
Tuesday evening, were struci by It train
and killed.
DR.. Mare Bond OF Aurora, Ind, has be-
gun suit to set aside his marriage In April,
1856, with Miss Jennie Hill of Aurora, on
the ground that he was forced by threats OF
murder to marry.
over thirty bridges on the Northern Pa.
ciic, between Bismarck, Dak., and Billings,
have been swept away by floods. Passengers
report that Miles City has been twic. inun.
dated within the last week.
The Montgomery County Agricultural
Society will not hold spring fair this year.
The society has agreed to arbtrate the
question of hay sales in Washington. 1T Is
proposed to establish hosiery mill at Elk.
ton.
The annual meeting Of stockholders OF the
Chicago, st. Louis and Pittsburg Railroad
Company was held In indianapolis yester.
day. The annual report shows: Gross
earnings, S4,s42, ,3lG,i1; expenses, $},95J,-
3CO0s; an increase in earnings OF S27i, 720.
Thirteen men have been arrested In
| Christian County, Mo-, supposed to be
concerned in the recent tragedy near
Sparta, in which Charles Green and Wm.
Eden were shot down by an alleged Bald
knobbers, an organization similar to the
| Ku-Klux.
Another addition to the Canadian fish
| cries protection fleet has been made In a
fast sailing schooner OF l05 tons burden, to
| be used as q cruiser next summer This ia
| taken as another indication of vigorous
protection on the part OF the Dominion
| Government.
| AS the passenger train for Wheeling on
the Cleveland, Loraiu and Wheeling Rail-
road was passing Barton, Ohio, Tuesday
night, the rails spread, throwing the engine,
tender, baggage car aud two coaches from
the track. None OF the passengers or train
crew were wounded, although all were
badly shaken up.
| A rumof Is current at Jacksonville, Fla,
that the Clyde steamship Company and
| Quintard 4 Co. have fallen out, and that the
arrangements by which the Clyde boats
| were given the field between New York,
Charleston ard jacksonville is about to cad,
| II is said that the result will be three di-
rect lines 10 Florida, Instead Of two, as at
| present.
| The engine and tender of the south bound
morning train on the Marietta, Columbus
and Northern Railroad went through the
| Vincent tIestle, twelyes miles from Ma
rietta, Ohio, yesterday. Lyle Vincent and
Albert Boothhy, engineer and fireman, were
| killed, and JOhn Mccoy aud VIM Stewart
conductor and brakeman, were badly
scaded, Michael Early, passenger, had
his left leg mashed.
The representatives Of the transcontlnen-
tai railway lines have aTrang, d one tarifl
based on a strict Interpretation OF the new
Interstate Commerce law, and another tariff
designed to meet Canadian Pacific and water
competition. TIE first will be put In effect
at once. 1t advances the present through
rates 80 per cent. The attorneys of several
roads ale instructed 10 present the other
taIif to the federal commissioners when
appointed, and ask that the transcOntinental
roads be allowed to adopt II, the claim being
made that the tariG strictly complying with
the law will drive the railroads out OF
through business.